Weekly Report - 29 August 2006

On 17 August the Federal Register published a notice from the State Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs that the US will no longer authorise the export of defence articles and services to Venezuela, and that all existing licences and approvals to export such articles and services have been revoked. This formalises the creeping arms embargo which Washington had been tightening over the past couple of years.

On 23 August Venezuelan interior and justice minister Jesse Chacón announced that the attempts to refloat an antidrugs agreement with the US, as well as other agreements with that country, would be reviewed as a result of the announcement of the new 'intelligence mission'. Cooperation with the DEA was halted last year, but talks to amend a previous accord had since resumed.

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